Week 7: Parallelism

1. Tufte writes that Repton’s before and after comparison of the cottage “yields a parallelism of layered depth,” but later contradicts this by saying that “comparisons are more effective when the information is adjacent in space rather than stacked in time.” Do you think that there are instances when parallelism over time is more effective? (81).
2. Do you think that faulty parallelisms such as Repton’s embellishments and paradise-like qualities of the after images can help or hurt architectural representation? (102).
3. Parallelism is only effective when comparisons can be made. Do multiple images/comparisons make it more effective? Do too many make it lose effectiveness?
4. Which type of parallelism is most effective in architectural representation?
5. Should we try to avoid unparrallisms or can they be advantageous in certain situations?